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Print made by: Robert Pollard

Print made by: Francis Jukes
After: Thomas Rowlandson
Published by: John Raphael Smith
Title
Vaux-Hall
Description
English: An evening scene in Vauxhall Gardens. On the extreme left is the orchestra with the organ behind and performers on the kettledrums, string and wind instruments. The vocalist, Mrs. Weichsel, sings, in profile to the right, from the adjacent (and slightly lower) balcony, just above the heads of the crowd. A violinist and another musician are seated behind her. In the supper box beneath the orchestra is Dr. Johnson seated full-face, between Boswell and Goldsmith (d. 1774), who face each other in profile, both caricatured; of two stout women one is reputed to be Mrs. Thrale.


Many groups fill the foreground and middle distance. The two centre figures are the Duchess of Devonshire and Lady Duncannon arm in arm. A naval officer with a wooden leg and a patch over one eye is reputed to be Admiral Paisley (? Admiral Pasley, 1734-1808). Major Topham, an excellent portrait, stands (left) in profile to the right staring through an eyeglass. Between Topham and the supper-box are two men, one of whom is identified as Lord Camelford.[In the reproduction in Angelo's 'Reminiscences'; to whom the name refers is not clear] An elderly parson, [He closely resembles the parson of BMSat 7059 who is probably William Jackson of the 'Morning Post'] reputed to be Bate Dudley but not resembling him, gazes at the Duchess from behind a tree. Next him a man dressed as an officer in a Highland regiment with kilt and broadsword is supposed to be James Perry, editor of the 'Morning Chronicle'. On the right the Prince of Wales, conspicuous by his star, whispers to Mrs. Robinson (Perdita), though their liaison was ended. Her right arm is linked with an ugly and elderly little man, probably Robinson. On the extreme left an elderly couple advance arm in arm in profile.
Behind the Prince is a group standing on a small platform (or tables), showing half length above the crowd. In the foreground (right) is a supper-table under trees where two cits entertain two courtesans. Lamp-lit trees and the covered way form a background on the right. 28 June 1785


Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
Depicted people Associated with: James Boswell
Date 1785
date QS:P571,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 505 millimetres
Width: 755 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1880,1113.5484
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) One of Rowlandson's most famous etchings. A water-colour (8 5/8 X 10 in.) of the lower left corner of the design, showing Johnson's supper-box, the two figures on the extreme left, and the group on the right of the box including Camelford and Topham, was exhibited 1936 by Frank T. Sabin, New Bond Street. It is almost exactly as in the etching except that a corner of the background on the right is omitted; the scale is approximately the same. (Reproduced, Catalogue, pl. CXI.) Grego, 'Rowlandson', i. 157-61. Often reproduced, e.g. Angelo, 'Reminiscences', 1904, ii. 1 (coloured pl.).

(Supplementary information) See also 1949,1008.51 and G,14.40.

After watercolour in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-1113-5484
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